Summary of Lab Feedback

[brendoncampbell]

The details below summarize the lab feedback from issues #70, #71, #72

GENERAL

• Titles could be more descriptive (ex: 'number of observations' could be made dynamic?) (likely actionable for milestone 3)
• Include units on the axis ("Price ($)") (likely actionable for milestone 3)
• General confusion about 'value' metric. Make it more clear what points/score/rating/ranking vs. price vs. value is. (likely actionable for milestone 3)
  • Use the terms points/score/ranking more consistently -> lets use rating

Map

• Consider showing something other than just the number of reviews?
  • Difficult because some states/counties/regions don't have enough data to make this work well
• Consider including some additional prompts or questions to get the user thinking about how it could be used.

Bar Chart

• Change default to have highest to lowest first (likely actionable for milestone 3)
• Change tooltip labels (likely actionable for milestone 3)
• Confusion about why the first bar needs to be highlighted/coloured.
• Consider adding more description about how the 'Wine Rankings' section should be used. Perhaps with a hoverable information icon?

Heatmap

• No need to angle the x-axis labels here (likely actionable for milestone 3)
• Again, consider a hoverable information icon that explains how to use it
• Graph is slow to change, consider informing the user that it takes some time to load
• Why show value not count?
• We don't know which bottle(s) these are referring to. In the future it would be cool if we could have a way to show the actual bottles

[katieb1]

I will not be able to do the tooltip functionality on the bar chart. Since I am using a function to make dynamic axes, it is difficult to aggregate the variables to show information effectively. This is likely not a huge issue considering the tooltip is not really adding much to the plot and wasn't in our original sketch design anyway.

[jnederlo]

I altered the Points in the map charts to reflect Rating and I refactored the code/optimized file structure in merge #81.

Additional choropleth views based on something other than "Num Reviews" is not possible on a state by state basis. This element will be included as an additional feature in accompanying plots to compliment the map with an added interactive clickable element. This will be a major feature implementation and will proceed with a later version.

Prompts for use on maps is included in the short description on the "Geographic Analysis" tab.